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View Article  Battles in Batticaloa

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Kokoticholai Tamil Tiger HQ.

                                                  SRI LANKA EAST                                

                         Battles in Batticaloa: Too Early to Tell

                                                   By: Chandi Sinnathurai

 

COLOMBO seem to have prematurely claimed victory in Kokoticholai.  This Tamil Tiger base in the East has functioned as Tiger HQ since the days of the defected iron-fisted Karuna.  Its no doubt a ...   more »

View Article  Strategy, Tactics, Minus The "Blah! Blah! Blah!"
                    Strategy, Tactics, Minus The “Blah! Blah! Blah!”

byChandi Sinnathurai, 29 March, 2007Countercurrents.org

THE SRI LANKAN Government (SLG) is shocked to the core. The aerial-attack on the Air Force Base by the Tamil Tigers’ Air Force (TAF) on Monday, 26th March has raised many concerns.

The Sri Lankan Armed Forces had intelligence concerning the ...   more »

View Article  TAMIL TIGER'S AERO-DYNAMICS

                                   TAMIL TIGER'S AERO-DYNAMICS

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THE Target of the Tiger aerial attack on Monday [March 26, 12:45 am (Local time)] was the hangars of MIG27 and Kafir jets in the Sri Lanka Airforce Force [SLAF]Base.

It was reported that the Tiger Air-wing aircrafts, having the "mission accomplished" safely reached the Tiger heart land, Vanni.

It must be noted however that, the ...   more »

View Article  Capricious Ceasefire: Accelerating Human Suffering

Sri Lanka: Capricious Ceasefire; Accelerating Human Suffering

By Chandi Sinnathurai

24 March, 2007
Countercurrents.org

The undeclared war in the Tamil territories has brought untold suffering and deaths upon the civilian population in Sri Lanka. The current fighting in the East, in Batticaloa district, between the Tamil Tigers [Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam] and the Sri Lankan Armed Forces have ...   more »

View Article  The Culture of Violence and Human Suffering

          The Culture of Violence and Human suffering

The following first-hand thorough report from the Methodist Church of Sri Lanka reveals the plight of the people in the North and East regions of Sri Lanka. This report was produced in March 2007after undertaking a fact-finding mission by the current President of the Sri Lankan Methodist Conference: Revd. Ebenezer Joseph....   more »

View Article  Hearts and Minds?
           Is the war in the East about winning hearts and minds?

                                              by: Chandi Sinnathurai

THE ferocity of thewar in the Eastern Tamil territory [Batticaloa District] has produced over 155,000 internal refugees.  As the war continues these numbers are expected to rocket.  Reports from the citizens in Batticaloa – the Eastern city, have said these ...   more »

View Article  Multiculturalism to nativism - A Sivanandan

Britain's shame: from multiculturalism to nativism

By A. Sivanandan

22 May 2006, 3:00pm

As every step that Blair takes to 'cohere' the nation is at the expense of ethnic minorities, and Muslims in particular, IRR News talked to A. Sivanandan about how he saw the integration debate.

IRR News: The concept of integration is becoming a vexed one across ...   more »

View Article  Palestinians must redefine struggle - Ramzy Baroud.

Palestinians Must Redefine Struggle

By Ramzy Baroud

17 March, 2007
Countercurrents.org

It’s never easy, although a sure assertion, to maintain that the Palestinian front, at home as well as abroad remains as fragmented and self-consumed, thus ineffective, as ever before, but most notably during the disastrous post-Oslo period.

Such a realization wouldn’t mean much if the inference is concerned ...   more »

View Article  HELP!

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                                                          HELP!

A few leading citizens in Batticaloa town in the East Sri Lanka have conveyed via telephone the following report: 

They have said that there is a serious "whisper" going around in Batticaloa that the Sri Lankan Army Officials based there have conveyed to the medical staff at Batticaloa Teaching Hospital that in a few days the conflict situation is deemd to take ...   more »

View Article  People, People Everywhere...

People, People Everywhere...

People, people everywhere

in hundreds and in thousands

on tractors, and on bicycles

On foot, walking many miles

Dehydrated, tired and hungry

Escaping the showering inferno

Escaping from the fire into the frying pan.

people, people everywhere

in the east and west and in the heart of Batticaloa

People, O people, young and old

infants and children

Thousands ...   more »

View Article  Laughter Cleese!

                                                Laughter Cleese!

One actually wonders whether such an idea that is shown in the following youtube clip will help the strees-charged people including the combatants in the conflict zones...would this produce serious peace?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yXEfjVnYkqM

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View Article  Plausible Deniabilty?

                                                   Plausible Deniability ?

                                               By: Chandi Sinnathurai, 12 March 07

Hundreds of thousands of indigenous Tamils from both the East and the North in Sri Lanka are fleeing to relative safety from the indiscriminate air attacks and multi-barrel rocket launchers from the Sri Lankan Armed Forces even as we write.  A public statement released on 9 March by ...   more »

View Article  Amnesty Int'l - Public Statement

AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL

Public Statement

AI Index:ASA 37/006/2007 (Public)
News Service No:047
9 March 2007


Sri Lanka: Amnesty International writes to Minister of Human Rights
Amnesty International has written to the Minister of Disaster Management and Human Rights, Mahinda Samarasinghe, on the occasion of the fourth session of the UN Human Rights Council in 2007. Amnesty International ...   more »
View Article  Praxis and Pragmatism

                    Praxis and Pragmatism

                                          by – Chandi Sinnathurai

THE international community, in short the West – Both the US and UK in particular, do not have any single reason to commit the sin of omission by evading the urgency of ‘direct’ humanitarian intervention in Sri Lanka.  The sole interest of the West, aside ...   more »

View Article  Hoping Against Hope? by- Kim Petersen

Hoping Against Hope?
The Struggle Against Colonialism in Canada

by Kim Petersen
March 5, 2007

On 24 July 1534, the French explorer Jacques Cartier landed at Baie de Gaspé on territory inhabited by the Haudenosaunee. The French erected a large cross there and Cartier claimed possession of the land in the name of the French king François I. When ...   more »

View Article  Offensive Battles: A Look Back
NOTE: In light of LTTE's following statement, we would form a fuller picture by re-reading Taraki's analysis in March 1992. Manalarru yet again will prove to be a decisive battlefront. CS   more »
View Article  EAST TIMOR
Noam Chomsky

Why Americans should care about East Timor

Aug. 26, 1999

There are three good reasons why Americans should care about East Timor. First, since the Indonesian invasion of December 1975, East Timor has been the site of some of the worst atrocities of the modern era -- atrocities which are mounting again right now. Second, the US government ...   more »

View Article  Marxism etc; etc

Marxism

RBR: Specifically, Leninism refers to a form of marxism that developed with V.I. Lenin. Are you implicitly distinguishing the works of Marx from the particular criticism you have of Lenin when you use the term 'Leninism'? Do you see a continuity between Marx's views and Lenin's later practices?

CHOMSKY: Bakunin's warnings about the Red bureaucracy that would institute the ...   more »

View Article  KALLADY BRIDGE

KALLADY BRIDGE - MATTAKALAPPU

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View Article  Plurality - Isaiah Berlin
I came to the conclusion that there is a plurality of ideals, as there is a plurality of cultures and of temperaments. I am not a relativist; I do not say "I like my coffee with milk and you like it without; I am in favor of kindness and you prefer concentration camps" -- each of us with his own ...   more »